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This year’s edition of the French Top 12 Club Championship “Championat de France d’eches interclubs Top 12“ were scheduled to take place in the Southern French city Le Grau-du-Roi (close to Montpellier) from May 30 to June 9, 2015. The tournament was fought out between the country’s twelve best teams at the local yacht club’s casino. Eight boards were stage to the chess duels which were arranged in everybody-against-everybody playing mode. Final results were only determined by those matches with definite outcomes.

Anish Giri, Arkadij Naiditsch (both Team Bischwiller), Wesley So and Dmitry Jakovenko (both Team Clichy) as well as David Navara and Radoslav Wojtszek (both Team Mulhouse) are only a few of the attending internationaltopstars next to the best French players.

After Round 10, the final winner was already determined by Bischwiller’s 2:1 victory over Strasbourg (winning points Giri and Edouard), while the bronze and silver medals were also secured prematurely. Unfortunate was not only the Team Poitier-Migne but also Arkadij Naiditsch who was so many points short at the event that we won’t even be able to find him amongst the players with ELO-ratings of 2700 points and above.

The ‘Qatar Masters Open’, organized and carried out by the “Qatar Chess Association”, began on November 25 and ended yesterday evening. The stunning prize fund of 100,000 USD, 25,000 USD of which were the victor’s reward, lured in many chess players from all over the world. Amongst them were fourteen top-class players with ELO-ratings of over 2700 points, such as Anish Giri, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Vladimir Kramnik, Arkadij Naiditsch, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Doha at the Arabic Gulf was temporary home to 154 players who had high hopes in winning a share of the prize money.

Anish Giri was able to secure the position as favorite tournament competitor in the early stage of the event and won the first six rounds flawlessly. When facing his strongest opponent, Vladimir Kramnik, in round seven his winning series came to an end. After Kramnik had prevailed, the two of them shared first rank with each six points.

And the suspense did not cut off: In round eightKramnik defeated Salem (ELO 2586), which was not surprising, and thus scored his seventh point. Giri, on the other hand, had a hard time and finally lost against Chinese player Yangi Yu (ELO 2705). With 6.5 points on his account Yu enhanced to 2nd place, leaving Giri in 3rd at 6 points.

The ninth and final round of the tournament ended with Kramnik losing against Yu, who then advanced to 1st rank. Giri was able to prevail over the Armenian player Vladimir Akopian, scored a whole point, and ended up with a shared 2nd rank.